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Pill VATI4; CORRESL'ONDENCE. AUTHENTIC LETTER, FROM PARIS, FEB. 25. T!ie French Revolution is ended, but the hatred and the vengeance which created it Have not yet ceased, nor will they cease during the present ge neration. The conduct of a party which will not ide l ntify itself with the nation is the. cause of it. . 'Loots XVI. chose his Ministers ill; their vat ions exce,s, a (ni ne ,' the State. The Nobles and the tlei g y, who had always been exempt from taxes, positively refused to .contribute to the wants of. the nation ; they were drones in the hive, they, ate all the honey, but n ev e r ma d e an y. Wh at should we think in England. ; f the patent of No bility exempted the party from paynnz any taxes whatever ? No one cay doubt that in this enlight ened age the English would rise en masse to re farm such abuse ; such, and such only, was the 0- ject of the French in 1789 ; the resistance of the privileged classes, who were determined to receive all and pay nothing, brought on fresh objects of debate, till at length the necessity of resisting op pression called into action the very dregs of so ciety, and the Revolution burst forth like a tor rent with all its horrors..... Those who then sought their safety in flight, are now, by-.the faits oh England, enabled to return, and again press 'heir ridiculous pretensions of exclusive You will say, the KING has- given a Charter ; yes, hut they despise it : have we not seen the Nobles make efforts in every part of France to violate the Charter, in seeking, by thicals, and even worse means, to regain pos session of what was sold as national property, 1 and consecrated as such Ly:th e Ch ar t er t h ey i nvo k e. Have we not seen the l'..iests, tinder the sanction] of the hi,hest orders in the Church, preach the duty of p tying Tittles, and call down eternal damnation on all who refused ; and demand the restitution of Church property at the hands of the dying, and invokir,g the ven4eatice of Heaven in case of 'refusal. In vain Etas, the civil authority interfered, the Chime!' protected the delinquent, and lie escaped punishment—e g. the Abbe KIN 30N, condemned by the law to tine and imprison ment, what has he paid, what has lie suffered ? The Church protects him, and lie laughs at the sentence of the tribnnals, which they dare not execute upon him !!—These, Sir; are the friends of the Altar and the Throne, whom we are called to admire—men who scruple not to trample the law s under their feet, who fancy that a nation of twenty-eight millions is made to livk the dust from their sl:oes, and labour for their pleasure. I hesitate not to predict, that every attempt to estal.lish such a system will not only be defeated, but' risk a new revolution. France copi-s Eng land ; site is resolved to have an equality in the eye of the law. A 6 to your opinion of the Fiend! Ministers, it certainly differs from mine, but truth being our mutual object, we will candidly seek it, saying with Virgil,. 'fros Tyriusque utihi nullo discrimioe agetur. kooky tilt Miaisters from their actions and their ptivate character in society, and front these judge. Their situation is a mo,t trying one; t .ey have to resist the extravagant pretensiohs of two parties, both powerful. The ULTRAS by a 3,oction near the throne ; the Jacobins, Repub lican,, and littonapartisis, by au immense phy sical force, in the body of the nation. On this grou n d their conduct, prudence, and abi lity demand admiration ; in their anxiety and torment they perhaps do not listen enough to the real voice of the nation, but at any rate they are not indifferent to it. The Ministers are not Jacobins or.Buonapartists. For a ma t to.have passed his life in France, dur ing the Revolution, and in the midst of politiCal tioubles and usurpation, and accepted offices to serve his country, this does not stamp hint either Buonripayrist or Jacobin ; if it do, there are none other in France, and to exterminate them, 28 of men must be annihilated. 1 am not arnalinted with the political lives of all th e M niters, but I know the major part have not to blush for the past. The character of Buonapart ism is to cherish the foolish hope of restoring to the throne BUONAPARTE and his dynasty ; the cha racter of Jacobinis►u is to wish a liberty and qua ky inc•ornpatible %vith social order, and subver sive of all Monarchical Governments Now le: the enemies of the Ministry point out one act which marks such a tendency. I have said the French Ministry is prudent. I appeal to i►s acts. Let us luok back to the Cham ber of 1816, and see how it proceeded to secure the success of its measures. In a few weeks it re-orgaidzed all the departments of Government ; the g Oti and the bad citizen, the able and the ig noraio, Buonapartists, Jacobins, arid Royalists, had all been proscribed pell-mell. The vilest of the vile had been able, by ar.y, the most unfound - cd and most improbable accusations, to get per tons of worth turned out, .aiid themselves put-in their places. All the prisons were filled; and to cite but -one out of S 6 Departments, that of Deux Sevres, M. DB CURZAY, the Prefect, dismissed 70 Ikltivors at one dash of the pen, for " having fa voored the invasion of the Usurper," who had . . landed upwards of 600 miles from the Department. tic dismissed the Common Council of Niort, the chief town ; he dissolved the General Council of the Department, and the Councils of the Arron dissements ; he changed the whole Council of the Prefecture, even though there were in it sworn enemies to BUONAPARTE, who had thrown up their places rattier than serve him ; he dismissed the Covernors and Committee of the Hospital of Ninrr; who had, in difficult times, assisted the establishment from their own purses. The Re- ceiver-Geoeral, the Collectors of Taxes, Excise Offirers, and Judges of Tribunals, were all dis- missed to make room for his pure friends. The Nation,d Guard, that had she . tvn its devotion to the KING,. was dissolved, and Officers chosen from the inosc infamous characters. In his epurations lie changed every thing, even to the retail dealers in tobacca anal snuff; lie changed them all as traitors, not to the King, but to Ultra• Royalism. This, Sir, is a fai►iif:il and an atiiiimic picture of W hat passed in one Department ; similar con duct., not indeed to such au excess, was pursued We received last night the Paris Pak - 21 of Thursday last. Those of Friday, which were due this morning, have not come to hand. They are entirely silent respecting the Duke of WELLiNGTON. The arrest is nrentioned of M. de CRUYKENBOiffiG, a Belgian officer, who was after wards allowed to return to his hotel, in the custody of two Gendarmes, to arrange his affairs, and who was to be immediately conveyed to Belgium. The nature of the charge against him is not stated. Algiers is reported to be in a stare of civil war, he Turkish Militia having laid siege to the Dey his fortress. These Journals insert the Proclamation of the new King of SWEDEN, on his accession to the Throne. It is now said that the meeting of the Allied Sovereigns will not take place till August, and that on returning from it, the Emperor of RUSSIA will pass some time at Vienna. every where ; the cation was ripe for revolution ; it was ready to burst forth. The Ministry, by measures, as AiiiSt• as firm, prevented the ordon mince of the sth September and crushed the Hydra. The prisons in all the Departments were gorged with. suspected victims ; an enquiry was insti tuted, and against 99 in 100 not the slightest shadow of a charge existed ; in CuczAY's Depart ment, not one was found nut of 280, against whom even their enemies could substantiate a charge. The prison doors were opened ; the or donnance of sth September saved the throne and saved France ; its results restored thousands of Innocent victims to their families. It might be conceived that the Ministry, indig nant, inspired by a spirit of vengeance, 'would have also begun its epurations ; but no, it left its very enemies in place, hoping, by magnanimous s.entiments, towards them, to convert them ; but this hupg;was often blasted. The tiger dies not easily renounce his nature ; and the Ministry was forced to make a few examples,—bnt they only made a few.; The Government has shewn itself unwilling to shtit the door Of repentance. The Ministers so far detested the name and idea of a Revolution, that they would not make their epu ustions en masse, as they might and perhaps ought to have done; they sacrificed their resentment to the wish to consolidate the throne. Now in this I not only see prudence ,but cou rage. The Ministry proceeds with. a firm and steady step right 'forward,. it turns neither to the right or left, and will not stoop to vengeance, which would have betrayed 'marks of weakness and alarm : and such indeed has been its firm and steady step, that the false friends of tie King, and his open enemies, have not for a moment made it deviate from its route. The Minisity shews itself liberal, because, bon gre mal-gre, France can only be brought to obey a liberal Go vernment. The Law on the Elections, atiA that on Re cruiting►, are not, whatever may have been said to the contrary, Anti-Monarchical ; they are, it is tree, favourable to an equality in the eye of the law; but there is nothing to be !lone with French men, if you would either restore the old privi leges or create new ones, and laws nmst be made for men, as we cannot make men for the laws. If die Ministry, on two such essential point s , have ceded to public opinion, we must also con fess that it has resisted the blind zeal of those who would surround the Throne with purely Re publican institutions. You observe France from the banks of the Thames,—l from the banks of the Seine, and in the capital, in the society of the principal actors of all parties. At every step I discover the hatred which all partieS bear the Ministry, which is, to me at least, a proof that it is not the accomplice of any. The Jacobins and the Ultras are equally violent against it ; and vow it. bellunuad interne elution. They are enemies, natural enemies, to each other ; but such is their mutual hatred of the Ministry, that they have more than once fought in the same ranks to overthrow it. This simple fact in i‘self speaks volumes, and refutes the charge of the French Ministry being in the slightest aegree Jacobinical. The great !vigil, of this letter prevents my treating some points where I think the French Mi nistry to blame. As their precise character is interesting to England, I shall return to the sub ject, relying on your well known impartiality for its insertion. NEXT WEDNESDAY MORNING LOTTERY DR Ms._ THREE PRIZES OF ,C an ono. , —ONE HUNDRED CA PITALS.—'TWELVE PIPES OF PORT. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed on Saturday Night. THEATRE ROYAL, URT-LA NE.—Town and Country: Reu. ben Glenroy, Mr. Kean; Rosalie Somers, Mrs. Robinson- After which, Rosina. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.—(3d time). Zurna : Mir- Tan, Mr. Brabant;, Zutna, Miss Stephens. After which, The Russian Festival. To which was added, The Illustrious Traveller. MAILS. ARRIvF.O-2 Dublin, 2 Waterford, 2 Guernsey and Jersey, I France, 2 Flanders, I Brazils. I)ue-1 Waterford, 2 Hol. land, 2 Gottenburgh, 3 Hamburg!). • PRICE 0 STOCKS THIS HAY AT r S per Ce nt.Rcd 79 1iiii 3 per Cent; Cons.. ...78ii§ti 4 per Cents . 5 per Cent. N. Ann.— ... lOtii Bank L. Ann..2oi 13-16 13-16 LLVE India Stock 9.401, India Bonds 9 - s. pr Exch. Bills 2d....113i. tits. pr Ditto, 2idi 205. tbs. pr. Cons. for April 70 lab; 7.9 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 7 minutes after 11. I Evening, 32 minutes after 11 TEIE, suN-. SOLEM (NIS DICER& IPNLSOM A tID - EAT ? LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1818. FRENCH FIVE PER CENTS.. Monday • ($7 f. 5 c. We received this morning Boston Papers to the 7th ult., and New Yolk to the 6th. (From The Boston Commercial Advertiser of Fey. 5.) SPANISH AMERICAN NEWS: News from New Grenada 'states, that the new Viceroy had officially notified that be could no longer sustain the Kingdom, in consequence of disasters experienced by his parties on the Plains of Casenane ; that Aloatt.Lo had threatened to execute one of his Generals for having retreated with 5000 men before 300 Independents ; that on the 6th of October the Independents had defeated the Royalists and captured the Province of Pam plona ; that in Carthagena the Spaniards were preparing for an expected siege. NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. A Gentleman from Penama informs us, that the Independent Army of Chili had landed in Peru to join the powerful Armies from Buenos Ayres ; that the Royal Army in Peru had been routed, and that the patriotic Armies were in triumphant march for Lima ; that Caseo had already become independent, which had excited great alarm in Lima ; that the Ports of Linia and Guay►►quil were closely blockaded by the Patriots, whose vessels had appeared off Penama, and it was sup posed their flag will Hy in triumph from Cape Horn to the north point of Venezuela, within Six months. (From the same Paper.) Accounts from St: Mary's to the 20th ult. state, that Commodore AIJRY still remained at Amelia, but was making preparations to embark with all his naval force and effects. It was, however, thought by some that the Island would be restored to him as soon as a fair representation of his pro ceedings could be made to our Government (very doubtful). (From the New York Evening Post of January 26) Bymn arrival at Charleston last Monday, in five days from St. Mary's, we learn that the Patriot brig Morgisna, with Colonel lavvs, and all his Others on board, shipped out of Amelia on Sunday the II th inst., destination unknown, leaving Commodore Aunt behind, who was -also pre paring to sail with the rem.rining vessels. The poor Spaniards at Amelia were complaining very much in consequence of AURY'S having ceased to issue rations to them. A MELIA ISLAND. SAVANNAH, JAN. 16.—We have accounts from Washington City to the Bth inst. from a highly respectable source, from whence we learn that our Councils are undecided, whether the occupation of Amelia shall be continued or not—much will depend on the course which the negociationi with the Spanish Ministers may take there—if nothing favourable results from it, the troops will be with drawn ; because it is already discovered that Con gress will not support the executive in the mea sure. We also learn that there is no other subject calculated to excite any sensations, and perhaps none likely to occur at the present Session of Congress. (From Me same Paper, Jan. 29.) LOSS OF THE SHIP BERKLEY. NORFOLK, JAN. 24.—The British ship Berkeley, 'Captain DENT, sailed from Annatto Bay, Ja . maica, on the 2(1 of November last, with a cargo of rum, sugar, and pimento, bound for this port, and on the 17th of same month, during a strong northerly gale, was wrecked on the Colloredos reef. The crew were all saved, and the Captain expected to have saved a part of the cargo by carrying it in boats to an adjoining island, but a party of the Spaniards laid siege to it on the night of the Ist December, and after plundering the ship •f every article, even to the cabin stores, which they could conveniently carry off, set the ship on fire. Captain Dent was only able to save 33 bags of pimento, and a few small articles, which had been conveyed to the island, and which escaped the observation of those rapacious sa vages. The Captain and crew afterwards found niFaus to get, to fla - Vanna, from whence the former has written an account of his disaster t• his Con signee .at this place. NORFOLK, JAN. 22.—From a Gentleman, who left Havanna on the 9th instant, we learn that the report of the detention of American vessels in that port, in consequence of information received that the United States' Government had taken pos session of Amelia Island, is totally without foun dation, nor did he hear that the intelligence of the taking the Island had reached them. We this day received the following intelligence from Paris, dated February 26, on which our Readers may most confidently rely : " A Courier has arrived from Rome, and his dispatches state, that THE PoPE will not hear of any modifications of the CONCORDAT. This in telligence has considerably irritated THE CHAM BERS, and they appear resolved not to agree that the number of Episcopal Sees shall thus be mut-. tiplied without any necessity : even amongst the DEPUTIES, who are the most decided Ministe rialists, a great amber are resolved to reject the Law of the CONCORDAT, from the sole eonsideraa tion of the great number. of Bisbopricks. There does not now seem the shadow of probability that it will be discussed this Session. The Deputies already begin to think the Session too long, and there is yet the Budget to discuss : as soon as it is over the greater number will instantly go home. " The Chamber of Isl 7 fancied it made a glorious effort over itself in iu►iLating, or rather endeavonting to imitate, the independence of in English Parliament, and that the DE PUT] ES should not be paid by Government like the I'LErts. What has been the result ? Many of the Deputies, of great worth and disinterestedness, ,but of small fortune, will not return a►t all. Many of them have not 4001. per annum 3 they come from the extremi►ies of France, and in the four months' residence at Paris, living even with economy, they are obliged to spend their whole The Law on the Elections therefore ought, and we understand will be changed on this point : if not, it will be necessary to choose the Deputies only . amongst the Landholders, who have 2 or 30004 per annum ; and of this class so few is the mon• bet in Prance, that there are 30 Departments in which there are not five persons of the age of forty who enjoy such a revenue, small as it may appear to the English reader." As the operations of the French Cabinet are highly important to the rest of Europe, we fee# much pleasure in submitting to our Readers this day, an authentic letter from Paris, which de• scribes the nature of its composition, and its ap parent designs. We have differed in some re spects from the opinions of our Correspondent, but as he is on the spot, moves in the first circles, and has full opportunity of observing the pro— ceedings of that Cabinet, so far as they can be traced by one not immediately conneeted with it as he possesses a capacity that enables him to form a due estimate of the state of affairs, and as we confidently rely on his rectitude' and impar. tiality, we shall not presume to question his views on a subject which be is so well qualified to treat, and has such ample scope for observation. We should be rather surprised •at his reserve on the interesting and alarming topic Of the attack on the Duke of 'WELLINGTON, if we did not retain our opinion that it has been deemed most proper to proceed in silence, in the attempt to discover the Assassin and his connexions, and that our Correspondent istoo prudent to. touch upon a subject which we presume. that France, for its own honour; will investigate with all practicahis vigilance. It is generally admitted that our Government has acted a prudent part in not interfering, except by amicable attempts at negotiation, between. Spain and her revolted Colonies: But do Minis ters know that there are two Agents still in this Metropolis, who are recruiting for the cause of the Insurgents, and purchasing, at a vast expellee, whatever is necessary for the -equipment of ant Army. A third Agent recently left this country for Paris on the same purpose. It is not enough thatour Government takes no active or ostensible part its the Contest ; it should not seem to be guilty of connivance, while it maintains the appearance of a rigid neutrality. We, therefore, exhort Ministers to ascertain thii fact ; for if the Adver saries of Spain are permitted to adopt such mea sures here, the Court of Spain may well accuse Great Britain of a hollow 'friendship, or rather of a treacherous hostility. We have little doubt that the French Government will speedily disco ver the Agent who is gone to Paris, and wilt frustrate his endeavours, unless, indeed, there . should he a covert Jacobin influence in that Go vernment, which the loyal and well-disposed part of it, with the best intentions, are tumble to sub due. Jacobinism is as artful as it is sanguinary, and will endeavour to effect its object by all pos sible means, and one of its primary objects is to embroil Nations with each other, and encourage sedition, rebellion, and anarchy all over the Globe. If Mr. TIERNEY were not known to be so pure and so disinterested a Patriot, from his objection to the printingof TUEREPORT Of the SECRST COMMIT-. TEE of the House of Commons, introduced in our account of the Debate on Satnrdiy last, it might be Supposed that he was apprehensive that it would be sati.!factory to the country, as a complete justification of Ministers for the part which they acted in saving it 'from theitorrors of re. hellion. The Honourable Gentleman declared, that he was puzZled to know why the Report should he printed, but we believe, that the people will be more puzzled to guess the grounds of his objection, unless they should mistake his motives, so much as to suppose that he thought it might refute all the allegations of Party within doors and without. The British Press says, '' this pre cious document" . as it stiles it, "presents no one ,'